day 44
day 44
I gradually find it hard to immerse myself into the plot of a story. I'm getting used to thinking about the characters' personalities, the cultural background, and the purpose of producing the story. Though I've read an interview with a director who once said:"it's much easier to make people cry than to make people laugh", I still find it hard to get the "points" that will be touching enough.
I think...maybe there is no "common sense" in the world. When reading fictions created from other cultures, I think that's just what people living in that culture would do in their life. I seldom feel anything sentimentally real when reading them. The more I read, the more firmly I believe there's no "common sense" in the world and the more confused I am.
I think I know Chinese culture as my mother tongue is Chinese. However, I must confess that sometimes I don't understand Chinese people as well. Actually I know little about the world, but I think that will be enough for living to only know what I want.
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I think words only become powerful when people think they are powerful. They are just words, and if one doesn't understand the language, they mean nothing at all...
18 Jul 2008 08:40
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Sue
I can’t imagine writing a fictional story because i’m too enthralled with what’s going on around me. Words are only powerful if you think they are because they’re only a concept, they’re not concrete.
When you get lots of people in one place who all think the same words are powerful
they can be powerful
beyond belief. i will tell you more about it when i get home as i can’t use this i-phone properly, all i can tell you is that the older i get the more thrilled i am to be alive.
18 Jul 2008, 10:12
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